Poker Tournament News
Kicking the tournament poker season back into gear, the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open will start play in its Main Event at noon today in Hollywood, FL. In just its third year in existence, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open has had a significant impact on the tournament poker world. The inaugural event in… Read more »
The six-handed final table of the inaugural 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event had the following: • A member of the WPT Champions Club with a sizable chip lead • The runner-up in last season’s WPT Player of the Year race who also won consecutive WPT titles • A man with $4 million… Read more »
The first World Poker Tour Champions Cup post-World Series of Poker is on the line today as the final six players from a field of 1,175 battle it out for the WPT Choctaw title. It is a strong final table with two past Champions Cup winners, with the additional benefit of being potentially history-making. Andy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back after a two and a half month hiatus with its third stop of Season XIV, WPT Choctaw at Oklahoma’s Choctaw Casino Resort. The Main Event, which began on Friday, July 31st with the first of two starting flights, is a $3,500 + $200 tournament with a $2 million… Read more »
When is a guarantee not a guarantee? When it isn’t…um…guaranteed, I guess. Over the weekend, tempers flared at the Golden Vegas Poker Club in Bratislava, Slovakia when the exact definition of the word “guarantee” came into question. The story of the controversy was relayed to the poker community on Two Plus Two by poster “Scarmaker.”… Read more »
Using his outstanding run during the 2015 World Series of Poker that saw him win a bracelet and finish at the final table four other times, Anthony Zinno has upended the various Player of the Year races in the poker industry. While he wasn’t in tough position previously in some of the rankings, Zinno’s run… Read more »
After a week of poker, a week of long, mental exhausting days, the final table of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has been reached. We have our November Nine. Day 7 began with just 27 players remaining, spread across three tables and did not end until around 1:30am, when Alex Turyansky… Read more »
This is it. Today is the day that the November Nine of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event will be determined. Just 27 players remain at three tables all trying to position themselves for both the climb up the payout ladder and the opportunity to be in the poker spotlight for the next… Read more »
The end is near. If the players remaining in the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event couldn’t visualize the final table before, they should most definitely be able to now. There are just 69 players left after Sunday’s Day 5 of the Main Event and virtually all of them have a reasonable shot… Read more »
The field is still divided, but the preliminary festivities of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are complete, as the three starting flights are now in the books. The chip leader coming out of Day 1C, John Gorsuch, now also has the distinction of being the overall chip leader going into Day… Read more »
The opening flights of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are always the most exciting; everyone in the tournament room is at the beginning of what could be a life-changing journey, everyone is so hopeful. There is a buzz in the air. So let’s enjoy the first three days of this week because… Read more »
While everyone thinks that the game of poker is about taking someone’s money away from them, some of poker’s best professionals and people with big hearts gathered late this week in Las Vegas instead with other motives in mind. During the run of events at the World Series of Poker, these people gathered together to… Read more »
When Jonathan Duhamel wins a World Series of Poker bracelet, he certainly makes the most of the situation. Early this morning, Duhamel won the second gold bracelet of his career, taking the title in the 2015 WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP Event, winning $3,989,985. Duhamel, of course, won the 2010 World Series of… Read more »
The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino may be the property that is hopping right now in Las Vegas, what with the 2015 World Series of Poker going on, but ARIA Resort & Casino is doing its very best to get poker players over to its venue. The WPT500 is currently being held there as a… Read more »
Brian Hastings is making a case for WSOP Player of the Year, as he has become the first player this year to win two bracelets at the 2015 World Series of Poker. The 26-year old who is better known for his online poker prowess won Event #39: $1,500 Ten-Game Mix, earning $133,403. Hastings certainly seems… Read more »
When one looks back on the poker boom era of the World Series of Poker, one of the distinct themes was the changing of the guard from the old school players who became instant television stars in the mid-aughts to the new-age, brash, young internet players who learned the game by grinding out thousands of… Read more »
OMG. Phil Galfond won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship Monday at the 2015 World Series of Poker, earning his second career bracelet and his first since 2008. For the win, Galfond won $224,383. As is always the case with high buy-in specialty events like 2-7 Draw Lowball, the field was very small, just… Read more »
In this latest (and first) edition of “truth in advertising,” the 2015 World Series of Poker’s sixteenth event, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker did actually create a millionaire (or technically, multiple ones, depending on the net worth of the individual players going into the tournament…but I digress). Tuesday night, Adrian Buckley won the third… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth continues to prove that poker is a game of skill with an element of chance, not the other way around. In fact, when Hellmuth plays at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), it seems that it takes bad luck for him NOT to make a deep run in a tournament. Already the most… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker – and its 64 event schedule – set to begin next week, the players have completed essentially the first half of the tournament poker “season.” As players prepare to descend on the “Oasis in the Desert” two men, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Anthony Zinno, will be at the top of… Read more »
Part of the beauty of poker is that on any given day, the most amateur of amateurs can beat the best professionals in the world. To those unfamiliar with the game, that may sound ridiculous; how can a “sport” be at all attractive when the least skilled players can win? Well, that is, in fact,… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2015 World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event, the first-ever WPT stop in the Dutch capital, saw 194 players belly-up to the tables, creating a total field of 324 when combined with the 130 who played on Monday. Just 97 ended the night with chips and will join the 54 who survived… Read more »
The World Series of Poker may be starting in a couple weeks, but that doesn’t bother the World Poker Tour, as it is stringing together tournament after tournament after tournament. Just days after the WPT World Championship brought Season XIII to a conclusion, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship kicked off Season XIV. And now, just… Read more »
Battling through a difficult final table, Spain’s Adrian Mateos – the reigning World Series of Poker Europe Main Event champion – added the second leg of poker’s “Triple Crown” in winning the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final in Monte Carlo yesterday. With only a six-handed final table (the other two official EPT final table spots,… Read more »
It was a short Day 3 at the 2015 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship Main Event as the field was narrowed from 45 to just 15 before prime time television started. Three men have separated themselves from the pack: chip leader Samuel Tsehai, who has 1.522 million chips, Sheraz Nasir with 1.207 million, and… Read more »
